19 AssassinsMcGeady stepped warily out of the cab, scanning all around him as he paid the now-relieved driver. The surrounding area was completely deserted, save for a few hardened thrill seekers wandering in and out of the Virtual Reality Park. The Park was open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and apart from the bars, this was the only form of entertainment in town. Berlin was not as it used to be, most of the fine 20th century architecture having been removed and replaced with faceless acid rain-proof buildings. There was a massive museum in town and it held the relocated buildings of architectural note. These properties had been saved from being dissolved away in the all pervading acid rain, but there seemed to be little nostalgia for that sort of thing nowadays. McGeady had

